Washington: Like two prize fighters resting between rounds, Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paused for a moment on Wednesday to wish each other well in the November 6 election. They spoke by phone after the president called to congratulate Romney for clinching the Republican nomination by winning the Texas primary on Tuesday. In winning the primary, the former Massachusetts governor surpassed the 1,144-delegate total he...
05:10 AM, May 31, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama was personally making all decisions about a top-secret and expanding "kill list" of terrorists belonging to al Qaeda and its affiliates hiding in Pakistan and Yemen to be eliminated in stepped-up drone attacks, according to a media report. "He (Obama) is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go," said Thomas E Donilon, his national security adviser....
09:04 AM, May 30, 2012
Washington: Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals. According to the Associated Press count, Romney surpassed the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination by winning at least 88 delegates in...
08:03 AM, May 30, 2012
Washington: Indian-American students have swept the prestigious National Geographic Bee, bagging the top four positions of this year's tough national competition, where US President Barack Obama played a quizmaster. Rahul Nagvekar (14) from Texas bagged the first position, by beating 13-year-old Vansh Jain from Wisconsin at the finals of the annual competition held on Friday. Both are class eighth students. The third and fourth positions went to Varun Mahadevan from...
05:37 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s. Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times' were treated as the vocal interpretation of civil rights, and anti-war movements. 'Like a...
11:21 AM, May 24, 2012
Lahore: Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan was humiliated at the NATO Summit in Chicago because of President Asif Ali Zardari's "zero credibility". "Pakistan had not been taken seriously by the world owing to the zero credibility of the incompetent rulers. World leaders gave a cold shoulder to President Zardari at the summit. It is the humiliation of my country as the elected President was snubbed at...
04:03 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: In a clear snub to Pakistan, US President Barack Obama left off the country from a list of nations he thanked for getting war supplies into Afghanistan, signalling a deepening rift between the two nations. "I want to welcome the presence of (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai, as well as officials from Central Asia and Russia, nations that have an important perspective and that continue to provide critical transit for...
09:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, an issue which continues to strain ties between two nations, American media reports said on Monday. 'The New York Times' said a deal to reopen the supply lines fell apart as Obama began talks on ending the NATO alliance's combat role in...
12:58 PM, May 21, 2012
Chicago: NATO says that its European missile shield is up and running with a basic capability to shoot down incoming missiles. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Sunday that the declaration of "interim capability" at the alliance's summit in Chicago is a first step toward a goal of establishing full coverage of Europe by 2018. A final stage is planned for 2022 that would also provide coverage of the...
11:03 AM, May 21, 2012
Chicago: NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they charted a path out of a war that has lost public support and strained budgets in Western nations. A NATO summit in Chicago on Monday will formally endorse a US-backed strategy for a gradual exit from Afghanistan, a move aimed at holding together an...
08:57 AM, May 21, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the US Congress to back his efforts for tough new financial industry oversight, saying a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan underscored the need for such regulation. "We've got to finish the job of implementing this reform and putting these rules in place," Obama said in a weekly radio address that accused some on Wall Street of causing the 2007-2009 economic...
06:14 PM, May 20, 2012
US President Barack Obama and other G8 leaders wrapped up talks on the European crisis at Camp David on Saturday with a pledge to keep Greece in the eurozone. ...
10:05 AM, May 20, 2012
Washington: After their two-day meeting in Camp David, leaders of the G8 countries have agreed that growth and jobs must be their "top priority" and noted a stable, growing European economy is in everybody's best interests, the host US President Barack Obama has said. "As all the leaders here today agreed, growth and jobs must be our top priority. A stable, growing European economy is in everybody's best interests -...
08:50 AM, May 20, 2012
Washington: The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict. By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the "safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and military contractors from Afghanistan." More than 10 years...
08:33 AM, May 18, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee completes a year in office on May 20 saddled with a debt burden of over Rs 2 lakh crore, a not too happy relationship with ally Congress and criticism on handling of some issues. Speaking about her government's achievements, Mamata said: "We have been working with devotion, dedication, accountability and transparency. Whatever I do I take it as a challenge." Mamata, who coined...
11:34 AM, May 17, 2012
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